You didn’t build that!
Speaking of building that, I’ve managed to build a mountain of paperwork as part of the new business. I’ve had to set up a trust to manage a self-directed IRA. Designate, through power of attorney, a trustee. I also had to set up a corporation. Prove that I have access to my money (weird, huh?). Get workers comp insurance. Will take two tests, one of which is on accounting and business law and is amusing because I’m a fucking CPA.
I’m racking up legal fees as fast as Tom Cruise is in his divorce. All of this to use my money to start a small business where I make something and sell it.
So, yeah, I guess someone else did make that happen. That mountain of paperwork that is.
August 21st, 2012 at 7:16 am
Given that you’re a CPA, you should know that lawyers like to barter. Even a shitty lawyer can set up the legal vehicles you’ve mentioned.
August 21st, 2012 at 8:13 am
Just a little tip for the accounting test: numerator is on top, denominator is on the bottom. Hope that helps.
August 21st, 2012 at 8:54 am
Absolutely screwy, ist it!?
August 21st, 2012 at 9:07 am
It takes a very specialized machine to put up all that red tape. And then someone else to make sure it’s high enough and doesn’t choke a baby seal. Not to mention the crew to verify that it is just the right shade of red.
August 21st, 2012 at 10:00 am
Before you can build that, you have to pay the government to let someone else build that for you.
August 21st, 2012 at 10:10 am
Regarding the link, while “Atlas Shrugged” is a somewhat a dizzying read, it is impossible not to draw from it when watching the current batch of leftists operate…Fearless Leader especially. The tale given by the hobo of what happened at the Twentieth Century Motor Company is the most damning and illustrative case against the left’s model I have ever read. There is a reason they HATE this book more than any other, save The Bible. And she was an Atheist!
Rand had the kind of forsight that Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke displayed when they described History and Moral Philosophy, and the surface of Europa, respectively.
August 21st, 2012 at 11:10 am
Welcome to the party pal!!!!! Get used to being fucked every which way you turn! After a while it gets to be old hat!
August 21st, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Yah, shame you didn’t research business law in Texas first. 90% of all the bs you’re talking about doesn’t exist here.
August 21st, 2012 at 3:16 pm
Whine whine whine. Never any sympathy for the people that have to review all that paperwork. CS Lewis gave the bureaucrats a shout out in The Screwtape Letters, but no love from Uncle. Have some sympathy, you heartless brute.
August 21st, 2012 at 5:15 pm
I think the best way to get rid of red tape would be a flame thrower.
August 21st, 2012 at 5:25 pm
I’m feeling the same pain. We decided to hire a part-time nanny to help out in the evenings 3 days a week. Weekly pay is under $200. You’d think this would be simple: if the lady shows up and the kids aren’t screaming the whole time, you cut her a check or hand her some cash at the end of the week. But if you want to actually comply with the law, the paperwork is unbelievable. I thought I had a handle on it until I read today that you’re screwed if you don’t have workers comp insurance and the nanny slips on your kid’s toy firetruck. What really burns me is that the people who are making the rules and enforcing them (Geithner to name just one of these scoundrels) flagrantly ignore the rules.
August 21st, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Man, I remember the paperwork hassles needed to correctly pay a nanny in California. I felt like I was being punished for doing the right thing.
August 22nd, 2012 at 10:49 am
“I think the best way to get rid of red tape would be a flame thrower.”
Put me in mind of this: I’d take a flame thrower to this place.
August 22nd, 2012 at 6:34 pm
No; you built that IN SPITE OF someone else trying to get in your way. That’s what makes Obama’s comments so deeply offensive– not only do we build things, we have to get around fuckwitts like Obama, and the barriers they put up in front of us, in order to do it.